If confirmed by the senate, i will keep an open mind in every case and i will always strive to preserve the constitution of the United States and the american rule of law. So kavanaugh is a graduate of Yale Law School and clerked for Justice Kennedy. In 1993 he met ken starr during a Justice Department fellowship and became a key staff member when starr was the independent counsel investigating the white water and clinton lieu ensky scandals. Kavanaugh helped write the final report to congress that laid out 11 possible grounds for impeaching president bill clinton. He served as george w. Bushs white House Counsel and Staff Secretary before he was nominated to be a federal judge in 2006. He was confirmed at that time by a vote of 5736. Now, Brett Kavanaughs nomination sets up an extremely
consequential confirmation battle. Within minutes of trumps announcement, several Top Democrats voicing their intention to vote against him. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer put out a saying that b
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Yesterday, trying to defend his client, talking about a lot of these issues related to Michael Cohen. Seemingly, creating more chaos and confusion in his wake. After an interview with cnn yesterday morning, giuliani seemed to open two new fronts in this whole saga, claiming, first, that collusion may not even be a crime, which is different from what we have been hearing from the president. The president has been saying there was no collusion all along. Now we are seeing President Trump backing giuliani up in a tweet this morning, reiterating that collusion isnt a crime, even though he himself just two days ago suggested that democrats should be investigated for what he claims is their collusion with the russians. Then on a second matter, giuliani starts talking about a meeting, a Planning Meeting that he claimed happened before that Infamous Trump tower meeting with don junior and russians promising dirt on
Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Job Approval Rating probably has seven or eight points, maybe even a little more of what i think of as 401 k trumpers right now. I think there are people who are looking at their statements, people who are on the right side of the economic equation any way. They see their numbers going up for all sorts of reasons. And so theyre willing to not really dive in to this russian novel story that no one can quite figure out. And theyre willing to suspend their bizarrely in my view, but they are willing to suspend their ordinary moral judgments about how this president conducts himself and is now representing us on the world stage. But i would not, if i were in the white house, count on that lasting until 2020. Well see. Joe, your latest column in the Washington Post really speaks to this entitled trump finally
feels gravitys unforgiving poll and reads in part
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. 18 times this month, 64 times in the last three months. I lay those numbers out because this is at the same time that the American Public sort of approval of the Mueller Probe is declining. It was 48 approval in on how mueller is handling it in march. Now its 41 , the lowest it has been. Is the president s strategy working . Well, if his strategy is to undermine confidence in the Justice Department and the institution of the legal process, then, yes, its working in some ways because he keeps calling this a witch hunt. He has the biggest bully pulpit on the planet. He is misinforming the public by saying mueller is employing 13 angry democrats. We dont necessarily know that any of these people are actually angry. The president is using his pulpit to punch down at the investigation. We are seeing the public react
to that. Mueller, because he cant respond, thats why you see the numbers go down. The president is
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Campaign discussed Hillary Clinton but there was no meaningful information shared. A month later in Senate Testimony he says i did not tell my father about the Trump Tower Meeting. Then giuliani says today trump jr. Didnt participate in the meeting. Trump sr. , the candidate at the time. We werent alleging he was in that meeting so im puzzled by why he was going down that road. Is he saying that cohen says donald trump was in a meeting with the russians or is he just messing the spaghetti around the plate. Im not sure i heard cohen is saying that. As chris hayes posted on twitter, giuliani says donald trump did not participate in the russia transaction. Hayes says, who said anything about a transaction . Imagine a world in which a normal subject of a criminal investigation didnt talk about this at all and just went about
their business. We wouldnt be having any fun. But this meeting is consuming so much oxygen and